Idaho inmates hacked prison-issued tablets for $225,000 in credits

TechCrunch ^ | July 28, 2018 | Taylor Hatmaker

[joshua c]

Maybe they shouldnt have given a tablet to the guy who was in for HACKING!

[Yorlik803]

No TV,,,or if there is one have it play Jerry Falwell for 8 hours a day,

[Twotone]

Three hots and a cot. Maybe TV.

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No tv. Hand them a bible to read for entertainment. Or maybe have the bible read over an intercom system. Period.

[AbolishCSEU]

My daughter and son in law lived in Orleans county for a few years. The prisoners have it good! The fam can visit them using their home pc and remote into the securus sessions. There’s a kiosk outside the county lock up to put in money so the prisoners can have their creature comforts.

With three squares, plenty of recreation time and yoga/art classes, what’s not to love? I often think we are the dummies for going to work every day (and having 2nd/3rd jobs as well to pay the taxes)

[liberalh8ter]

Aren’t they being punished?

Not anymore. They’re “monitored” now, not punished. Another system the left has corrupted squealing and fighting for prisoner’s rights.

[mass55th]

Thanks for the info. Back when I was working, family members could send money orders/checks to the inmates to be deposited in their accounts. All letters, except those from attorney offices were opened and checked for contraband. If a check/money order was included, it would be forwarded to the business office, and the inmate would get a receipt so he knew that money had been received.

Initially, NYDOCS allowed visits to inmate's every day. Can't remember exactly when, but at some point it was cut down to just weekends, although a lawyer's visit could still occur at any time, but it had to be scheduled ahead of time so staff coverage could be found. On weekends, an officer would go around the visiting room to see if people wanted to leave money for the inmate. The officer would take the money, and give the visitor a receipt for the cash, etc., and at the end of the visiting hours each day, the officer would deposit everything in a secure place so the business office people could pick it up when they arrived on Monday.

It's been several years since I've run into anyone that I used to work with, to even find out how those things are handled now. The State may have already set up some type of secure online site for people to transfer funds into an inmate's account. I'm so glad I retired when I did. Never had to deal with Elliot Spitzer, David Paterson, or Andrew Cuomo as Governors, although I was working while Mario Cuomo was Governor. The only thing I ever missed about the job was the great group of officers I worked with on my shift.